Spunk Library can only flourish if people contribute material. This document contains some guidelines for people wishing to contribute material. By following these guidelines you will make our task easier.

Format

There is a separate document on formats listing the text formats and disk/tape formats that we can currently accept. This also contains information on how to submit a disk or tape, if you do not have electronic access to the Internet.

Content

We collect anarchist materials. If you are unsure about whether we might add your item to our library, see our content guidelines. If you are looking for a place for somebody to publish your book, story, or poem, please go somewhere else. We are not a publisher.

Information

Please provide the following details, if you can, to ease access to and indexing of the material.

Title, author and a short description

Keywords to aid online search tools such as WAIS.

Related material of interest, and where to find it; this could be the
name of a publisher, or an electronic mail address.

Contacts

Any other relevant information

For instance, the interview with Buenaventura Durruti has the following extra
details:

Title:

Interview with Buenaventura Durruti

Author:

Pierre Van Paasen

Date:

July 1936

Description:

An interview with the Spanish anarchist, Buenaventura Durruti,
in Madrid, August 1936, by Pierre Van Paasen of the Toronto
Daily Star.

Keywords:

Spain, Durruti, Spanish Civil War, C.N.T., F.A.I.

Langauage:

EN

Related Material:

Reproduced in George Woodcock's 'The Anarchist Reader', and
Abel Paz's 'Durruti: The People Armed'. See the bibliography
in SPUNK013.

Copyright:

Public domain

It would help if you could use a similar style to the above, so that the
database in which this information is easy to work with. Please
either send this information as an electronic mail message, or include
it in a plain text file on disk, if you are sending material by disk.

Scanning Material

If you have access to an OCR, and are to willing to scan printed text, we'd particularly like to hear from you. See the document on OCR scanning for details.

Copyright

Please see our copyrights and permissions page for our guidelines. We prefer materials that are in the public domain or that are anti-copyrighted. Normally, this means anything that does not have explicit permission for redistribution, unless it is an edition of a work that is more than 60 years old. If you obtain permission to redistribute, please send us a copy of the permission.

Rejections

Occasionally material may have to be refused, because of inappropriate format, permissions problems, or because the content is not relevant. When this happens, the item refused is listed in the file Spunk_Rejections, with the reason for rejection, and an indication of where it can be obtained.